Hi, The manpage for getxattr() says : "On success, a positive number is returned indicating the size of the extended attribute value." But in case the value length is zero, we should return the size as zero (as is done by ext4, xfs). Thus "positive" number kind looks misleading. So it should be changed to "nonnegative". --Abhay diff --git a/man2/getxattr.2 b/man2/getxattr.2 index adc7617..c343c34 100644 --- a/man2/getxattr.2 +++ b/man2/getxattr.2 @@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ The interface is designed to allow guessing of initial buffer sizes, and to enlarge buffers when the return value indicates that the buffer provided was too small. .SH RETURN VALUE -On success, a positive number is returned indicating the size of the +On success, a nonnegative number is returned indicating the size of the extended attribute value. On failure, \-1 is returned and .I errno -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
